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say it: kuhn-SUR-vuhn-see
conservancy is a noun meaning "a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river
United Kingdom
the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for conservancy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.